New to Pi, Retropi, all of it
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I'm sitting here at work, knowing that my first Pi with RetroPi on it is waiting for me at home. I had a few minutes during my lunch break and found this site, and have looked through most of the Getting Started sections and some of the forums here. I'm hoping I won't need much help. The kit I got came pre-loaded with Retropie, so I'm sure I'll at least need to upgrade it. I know next to no Linux, so this should be an interesting time.
I'll be watching, and learning.. Thanks.
Lee.
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Out of curiosity, where did you buy the system and how much you paid for it ? Does it comes with games also ?
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@mitu
I got it from amazon. Came with the Pi, case (looks like a mini Nintendo box), a few heat sinks, power supply, a game pad, and a 32gb SD card preloaded with Rasbian(sp)(OS), RetroPie (unsure which version is on it) and Noobs, HDMI cable. Ran me something like $75 with all the 'stuff'. According to what it says, all I need to really do is load the ROMs.. To me, totally worth the money.. -
@palee72 Yes - totally worth it; except selling RetroPie is against the the project's license and the seller just profited from an open source project which explicitely prohibits commercial distribution.
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Assuming this is the listing in question.
"Ready to play--Includes a Class 10 Micro SD Card (32GB)--Preloaded with NOOBS & RetroPie"
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@livefastcyyoung Could be. It seems it no longer includes RetroPie:
Its possible that back in 2016 retropie was already "installed" on the Vilros Raspberry Pi, but if you buy this unit today, retropie is NOT "installed". You get an install file for NOOBS which basically installs Raspian OS when you plug it in and this takes some time, but even Raspian is not already "installed".
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@mitu said in New to Pi, Retropi, all of it:
@livefastcyyoung Could be. It seems it no longer includes RetroPie:
Its possible that back in 2016 retropie was already "installed" on the Vilros Raspberry Pi, but if you buy this unit today, retropie is NOT "installed". You get an install file for NOOBS which basically installs Raspian OS when you plug it in and this takes some time, but even Raspian is not already "installed".
That is from June 27, 2017, but there is a review from November 27, 2017 that sounds like it still is:
The memory card comes preloaded with Rasberian and Retropie, so you just choose which one you want to install.
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@ectoone but doesn’t “choose which one you want to install” imply that it is not already installed? I mean, if you are choosing, and then it does something, is it just downloading and running the install script— possibly meaning that the commenter simply doesn’t know the difference?
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@caver01 Nope, it sounds like they are using a NOOBS version of retropie.
- Insert memory card into pi and attach to power and tv via hdmi
- Select retropie OS and select install
And i believe the license still is valid even if it's not the official image.
BTW: I wish there was an official NOOBS build, because the guide to make one is confusing and because of that i had to use an unofficial build myself to have the option to get a dual boot system.
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Just to clarify.. After getting things assembled, I booted up to NOOBS, there were 2 options:
Install Raspian (recommended)
Install RetroPieI installed Raspian first, then installed RetroPie. These were both included on the 32Gb Micro SD card.
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@palee72 Do you have to use NOOBS to switch between them or can you start Retropie from Rasbian and vise versa?
If it's the later case, they probably got their files from multibootpi -
It's a shame sellers profit from this free software, but still welcome @palee72! Hope you will enjoy your pi :)
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@palee72 Welcome to this new world. :) I, too, bought my Raspi only weeks ago, and I explore it and Retropie ever since. I'm a Linux user for over ten years, though, so this part of it isn't new to me. Have fun!
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@BobHarris Actually for Amazon it's simple to stop. Retropie can report these easily using this form:
https://www.amazon.com/report/infringement
I have also confirmed the image is loaded right on the card and it is not downloaded.
@BuZz @herb_fargus have you tried submitting these?
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@ruperto I have in the past. We successfully took down one seller, then Amazon refused to action on further reports. I don't have the free time or motivation to constantly fight against the sellers.
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@buzz that reminds me of something I found yesterday and wanted to ask about. What do you think about PINN? It's a fork of NOOBS that can download and install Retropie. But the files are maintained by the devs of PINN, so at least (compared to other pre made multi boot packages) it sounds like the Retropie files are unaltered.
But my guess is that you wouldn't be very supportive if someone has trouble with that or if sellers would put that on cards right now get?Feel free to delete/edit this post if you don't want to draw to much attention to that method.
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By the time I parted everything out, I actually saved a few bucks buying the whole thing together.. for someone who has never played with Linux, Pi, or anything else, it made it not so scary. Until this, I had zero exposure to any of this technology. I first bought an Arduino a few years ago, cheap on Amazon. It was a Chinese knock off, but again, having never used it before, no programing background, and not sure I was going to stick with it, it was a great way to get started.. Now that I have some experience under my belt, my next purchase will most likely be just the Pi for my next project.. whatever that may be..
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